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11/30/2010

The oldest in the world of Facebook users is Lillian Lowe, a British 103 years old, whoupdates the profile on an iPad, Daily Mail. Former hotel and then businesswomanLillian Lowe says that "love" Facebook, a social network that helps you keep in touch with those seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren of his people.

Previous "owner of record" was Ivy Bean, 104 years old, who died in July. Lillian Lowe, which uses up a few weeks, will turn to turn 104 years in two months.

Lillian declares himself a big fan of social networking: "I love Facebook, it is veryexciting. It is a wonderful way to learn all sorts of new things. But I must admit that it is also a great loss of time.'m sure there are a lots of other things I could do at that timeinstead to play on the computer. "

Lillian Lowe says he's on Facebook about two times a week and has "the list of " 134friends. She considers it "adorable" to see their latest photos and messages, eachtime they access social network.

"I read a lot during my life, and now took the place of computer books, " she says.

Lillian Lowe was born in Britain in 1907, back when King Edward VII was on the throne, and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was prime minister. He "caught" two worldwars and now remembers the moment he heard the news on the sinking Titanic in 1912.

11/03/2010

The oldest person in the world, nun Eugenie Blanchard, died Thursday at age 114 years in the French Antilles, local officials said, quoted by AFP. Blanchard diedThursday morning in a hospital in Saint-Barthelemy, an island located about 250 kmnorth of Guadeloupe.

According to reports, Blanchard was born in Saint-Barthelemy on 16 February 1896.After becoming a nun, she left to serve in Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles, where he acquired the nickname "Sweets, " he used to give candy to children to attendreligious services and discussions.

After he retired 30 years ago, the nun returned to the French Antilles.

His grandson, Daniel Blanchard, a former mayor of Saint-Barthelemy, EugenieBlanchard said he is convinced that he lived so much "because he decided to offer her virginity to God. "

In May 2010, Eugenie Blanchard became the oldest person in the world after the death of the Japanese Kama chinense. She died just days before turning 115 years.

According to the Gerontology Research Group, which monitors the very old, currentlyexist in the world at least 75 "supercentenari", ie persons who are at least 110 years.

10/10/2010

An American president appeared naked in front of Barack Obama during a rally held Sunday in Philadelphia, thus qualifying him for a million dollar reward offered by British businessman Alki David, The Weekly Standard forward. In August, David announced that he will give $ 1 million first person who manages to appear nude in front of the White House leader.

According to American publication, the man who appeared naked in front of Obama's 24-year-old James is called Juan Rodriguez. He was helped by two employees battlecam.com web page, which belongs to British billionaire.

Glen Zolar and Joey "Boots" Bassolino confirmed to The Weekly Standard that met the requirements of David Rodriguez, wearing on his chest even battlecam.com site name. Who appear naked in front of Obama must be close to the president, to be completely empty and cry out six times battlecam.com site name.

Moreover, Alki David said that "when I see video recording and will confirm (editor's note. That Rodriguez appeared nude in front of Obama), I will send you a check, but I will send cash.

Glen Zolar and Joey "Boots" Bassolino said they had filmed the incident on Sunday but have not yet released video.

At this point, James Juan Rodriguez was in police custody in Philadelphia.

Alki announced in August that will provide $ 1 million first person who manages to appear nude in front of Barack Obama. He made that promise in a campaign to promote battlecam.com site that gives people hundreds of thousands of pounds if they are different acts crazy, they filmed and then load them on the Internet.

Initially, the contractor has provided $ 100,000 of which managed to appear naked before the American president, but then David raised the stakes dramatically, offering $ 1 million after being told initially that the prize is not enough for something so challenging.

09/09/2010

Five employees of France Telecom were killed in the last 15 days, thus bringing to 23 the number of employees in this group who have committed suicide since the beginning of the year, unions announced. The company's management agency confirmed to AFP the deaths.

"With dismay and great sadness we learned of several employees of the group suicide," said a spokesman. He said that employees do not know each other and had different jobs.

The CFE-CGC-UNSA, two employees were in the region of Rennes, one of the North, one of the Toulouse region and one in the Paris. Four of them worked directly for France Telecom and the fifth for Equant, a subsidiary 100% controlled by France Telecom.

"Until now no correlation has been established between these dramas. We will carry out a thorough investigation of the professional situation of each employee in part," said company spokesman. None of them committed suicide at work but one of them jumped off a bridge located near the head after he left the job, said the CFE-CGC-greased.

Since January 2010, 23 employees of the group were killed. France Telecom was in the center of a scandal sparked by a series of suicides at the end of 2009, which revealed a serious social crisis within the group. In total, management and unions have counted 35 suicides, some of them at work, between 2008 to 2009. That crisis, much-publicized, forced the company to open negotiations on the stress level at which employees are exposed.

08/13/2010

crets about the war in Afghanistan and documents in "two weeks", despite thePentagon's requests not to risk the lives of people involved, according to AFP.

"We are about half way, which is about two weeks' rest will be made public secretfiles on 15,000 war in Afghanistan, Julian Assange said in a news conference inStockholm.

Friday resumed its pressure on the Pentagon site to not let the documents, saying they are more dangerous than previous ones.

"We hope further that Wikileaks will not publish those documents and will notendanger human lives even more.," said Pentagon spokesman David Lapan.

Assange said, however, that Wikileaks can not be threatened by the Pentagon orother group.

"Organizations who are embarrassed by the publication of documents always requirethat they not be published," he said.

The site specializes in the publication of confidential information, Wikileaks publishedon July 25, more than 90,000 secret documents related to the war in Afghanistan,which gives the impression that Pakistan, a U.S. ally in the war, allowing his officers totreat the information directly with the Taliban. The United States has condemned the publication of secret documents.

"These 15,000 documents are those that put them aside on the basis that theycontain some indications, which means it is more likely to contain personally identifiable information. It takes a line by line analysis," the Assange said.

The site calls itself "the first intelligence agency of the people" and was founded in December 2006 Assange, a former hacker.